<TITLE>22. Par 260-270</TITLE>L-260   What are you looking to, church? Oh, these last days, oh, He's been right among us, people, and we forgot it. He set right among us, and we didn't know it. The Holy Spirit is here this morning, and maybe many will go away and forget it. Maybe many that's sick will forget to believe and anchor their faith right where it should be now. The true...

L-261 Truly the pool is troubled. The waters are whirling backwards from the natural, showing the supernatural. The Holy Spirit is here, taking a normal bunch of people, intelligent, setting here, well-dressed, well-educated, looking. The Holy Spirit fall upon them, and something whirls them around. They holler, "Glory to God! Hallelujah!" What's the matter? The troubling of the water. Amen.

L-262   Sinners setting there, backsliders, prostitutes, drunkards, and everything else, are saintly, godly. You can't put a finger on their lives, anywhere, since they receive it. What is it? The troubling of the waters. What are you looking at? The Holy Spirit fall among us...

L-263 I was setting there, a while ago, with Brother Outlaw, pointing people, to him, here with diseases and things. And could be done right now, showing the different things that's happened in lives and things. What is it? It's the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. What are we waiting for? The troubling of the water? It's already troubled. The Angel will leave pretty soon, and all virtue is gone, and then there's no salvation left. You'll be left into outer darkness.

L-264   Story I heard, a few days ago. In closing, I might say this. There's a boy who had done a murder. He done something wrong.

L-265 Well, I was called on a case, the other day, you know, this over here in Texas. I got a little certificate from them the other day, "Saving a life," it said. We went over there for that little Ayers. That man that taken the picture of the Angel of the Lord, who, that night over there at Houston, and criticized me and said everything in the world about me. Throwed his arms around me, hugged me, said, "Just think, Brother Branham, the very man that I said was hyp-... practicing hypnosis, has come to save my son from the electric chair." That's right. I talked there before them all. And what did the governor do? Pardoned it. Oh, my, when they was to die in four or five days, afterwards. Right. Why? I'm interested in life. Life!

L-266 I said, "Sir, you have no right to take the boy's life. The first blood was ever spilled, was one brother spilled another's. He shed his blood. But God didn't take his life in capital punishment. He put a mark upon him, that nobody would kill him. Don't rub that off." Amen, and amen. Right. We're interested in life.

L-267   One day, a mother's boy had killed a man. He was laying there, ready to die. And so the little mother stood by the governor's door, and they asked in. And, finally, with one of the guards, said, "Governor, that mother of that boy is out here, wants you. She wants to see you."

L-268 And when they opened the door, and said, "Madam, he will receive you."

L-269 The poor little thing crawled on her hands and knees, up to his feet, laid his hands... her hands upon his feet, and said, "Governor, honorable sir," said, "you're the only man that's left, that can spare my son. Please, kind sir. I know he's guilty. He's just as guilty. Your courts of justice found him guilty." And how many of us are not guilty in the courts of God? "Your courts of justice found him guilty. He actually killed, and he's subject to death. I know that. But, sir, as a man, you have no right to take the life of my boy. God only can give life, and only God can take life. Don't do it, sir. Please don't. I beg of you, as a heart of a mother could bear." And so he sent her away.

L-270 It broke his heart, so much, the pleading of that mother, till he goes down to the jail, to the prison where the boy was setting back in the prison.


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